God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.
Horace Bushnell
Source: Wikipedia
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
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It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow
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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
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Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.
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Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.
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O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
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We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.
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Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?
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As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
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Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
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Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.
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